Self-awareness enabled human dominance, but it now threatens survival. To endure, humanity must use its intelligence responsibly to shape a sustainable and meaningful future.

A stunning discovery in China is shaking up what we thought we knew about human evolution. Scientists have uncovered a ...

In eastern China, archaeologists brushed away layers of soil to reveal something astonishing: a 7,000-year-old fire-drilling ...

Homo sapiens, the species to which all modern humans belong, evolved in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago. Early Homo sapiens shared the planet with other human species like Neanderthals and Homo ...

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology ...

While Silicon Valley dreams of sleek, uniform progress, India opts for a patchwork quilt stitched together with hope, ...

While it is generally accepted that the forerunner to Homo sapiens - Homo erectus - left Africa about 1.5 million years ago to populate other parts of the world, there are two main theories about ...

Today, there are more than eight billion of us. Logically, then, there must have been a moment when Homo sapiens became a distinct species. Yet that moment is surprisingly hard to pin down.

Three hundred thousand years ago, the first generations of Homo sapiens huddled in caves, seeking shelter from the darkness. The fire flickered in the center, casting shadows on the walls and ...